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Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision
An unparalleled reassessment of Pierre Bonnard, exploring his paintings, drawings, photography, and prints
As one of the founders of the post-Impressionist group the Nabis, French artist Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) is frequently seen as a transitional figure between the Impressionists and modernists. This beautifully illustrated book offers a fresh interpretation, revealing the artist’s central concern with expanding representation beyond the limits of natural vision. The result is a new understanding not only of Bonnard but of modernism itself.
Exploring how Bonnard’s dazzling domestic scenes and landscapes reimagine perception, embodiment, and the passage of time, Lucy Whelan characterizes him as a painter of unusual insight in his consideration of the relationship between vision and representation. The book covers Bonnard’s paintings, drawings, photographs, and prints, with special focus on his later works from the 1920s to his death in 1947, and draws on an in-depth study of the artist’s diaries, interviews, and other written sources. A groundbreaking reassessment, Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision presents an artist engaged in avant-garde forms of experimentation who complicated vision in innovative ways.
As one of the founders of the post-Impressionist group the Nabis, French artist Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) is frequently seen as a transitional figure between the Impressionists and modernists. This beautifully illustrated book offers a fresh interpretation, revealing the artist’s central concern with expanding representation beyond the limits of natural vision. The result is a new understanding not only of Bonnard but of modernism itself.
Exploring how Bonnard’s dazzling domestic scenes and landscapes reimagine perception, embodiment, and the passage of time, Lucy Whelan characterizes him as a painter of unusual insight in his consideration of the relationship between vision and representation. The book covers Bonnard’s paintings, drawings, photographs, and prints, with special focus on his later works from the 1920s to his death in 1947, and draws on an in-depth study of the artist’s diaries, interviews, and other written sources. A groundbreaking reassessment, Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision presents an artist engaged in avant-garde forms of experimentation who complicated vision in innovative ways.
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232 pages, Hardcover
Published May 24, 2022
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June 27, 2022
The reproductions are lovely of Bonnard's paintings. The prose is typical pretentious and tendentious art criticism, filled with words that mean nothing, signifying nothing. The author needed an editor to make the book readable, and she utterly failed. Her "thesis" has several parts and none of it is worth rehashing here. Occasionally, Whelan wrote a sentence that conveyed real meaning about Bonnard's painting. You will learn nothing about Bonnard's life, and even less about his wife Marthe. Too bad, because Whelan could have written a biography at the same time. Whelan knows her subject. Like most art critics, she is utterly incapable of writing a sentence in plain English.
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